{"id":77270,"date":"2022-06-29T11:20:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T15:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/?p=77270"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:04:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:04:25","slug":"bgc-longueuil-member-creates-club-committee-for-2s-lgbtqia-advocacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/bgc-longueuil-member-creates-club-committee-for-2s-lgbtqia-advocacy\/","title":{"rendered":"BGC Longueuil member creates Club committee for 2S &amp; LGBTQIA+ advocacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW173331865 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW173331865 BCX0\">Luna, a member at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Kekpart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BGC Longueuil<\/a>, created a committee for the<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW173331865 BCX0\"> 2S &amp; LGBTQIA+ community, and for those who want to learn<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW173331865 BCX0\"> more about the community<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW173331865 BCX0\">. The committee meets daily, does research, and organizes meetings and events for everyone who attends La Maison <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW173331865 BCX0\">Kekpart<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW173331865 BCX0\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/luna-st-pierre.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW225757990 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW225757990 BCX0\">Supported by her coordinator, Luna provides information to the committee, hosts discussion forums on gender pluralism<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW225757990 BCX0\">, and addresses concerns. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW225757990 BCX0\">As a committee, they <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW225757990 BCX0\">want<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW225757990 BCX0\"> to help people proudly identify themselves in a way that\u2019s true to them, and<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW225757990 BCX0\"> hope that French inclusive writing becomes more of a norm.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW216814624 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW216814624 BCX0\">Thank you to <\/span><\/span><a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW216814624 BCX0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbuy.ca\/en-ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW216814624 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW216814624 BCX0\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">Best Buy Canada<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"TextRun SCXW216814624 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW216814624 BCX0\"> for helping <\/span><\/span><a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW216814624 BCX0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW216814624 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW216814624 BCX0\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">BGC Canada<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"TextRun SCXW216814624 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW216814624 BCX0\"> celebrate Pride month and amplify stories <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW216814624 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW216814624 BCX0\">of 2S &amp; LGBTQIA+ youth, staff, and volunteers at their Clubs<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW216814624 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW216814624 BCX0\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luna, a member at BGC Longueuil, created a committee for the 2S &amp; LGBTQIA+ community, and for those who want to learn more about the community. The committee meets daily, does research, and organizes meetings and events for everyone who attends La Maison Kekpart. Supported by her coordinator, Luna provides information to the committee, hosts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[279,791,792,793],"class_list":["post-77270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bgc-news","tag-2s-lgbtqia","tag-advocacy","tag-bgc-longueuil","tag-maison-kekpart"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}